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Watching a Word: Will the Fed Stay
"Patient"?

This week's FOMC meeting should hold clues on rates.

IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT INVESTORS and traders are all Fed up. For the past month, stock, bond and currency markets around the globe have become increasingly jittery on when -- not if -- the Federal Reserve will raise short-term interest rates.

Financial markets could get further indication of the timing this week, with the Fed's policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Tuesday.